Five little ducklings by Melanie Gerth(
Book
)2
editions published
between
2005
and
2007
in
English
and held by
90 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Young readers will laugh while counting from five to one, as five touchable ducklings disappear one by one

ASP.NET at work : building 10 enterprise projects by Eric A Smith(
Book
)6
editions published
in
2002
in
English
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69 WorldCat member
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CD-ROM contains: Source code for every project in text -- Additional supporting files

A concurrent architecture for a travel planning application by Eric A Smith(
Book
)3
editions published
between
1999
and
2000
in
English
and held by
2 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In this thesis, we present a concurrent architecture for a travel planner application. The main idea behind this architecture
is the division of the travel planning problem into task and subtask objects that solve distinct aspects of the problem in
parallel. These objects collaborate with one another, eliminating non-optimal solutions and producing a coherent solution
consisting of partial solutions from the subtasks. Groups of these objects solve different optimization problems within the
travel planning problem. The architecture is similar to that of a production system, particularly a blackboard architecture,
except that we insist on a distributed control system and use procedural tasks and subtasks rather than declarative knowledge
sources. Unlike blackboard systems, the solutions that are created are distributed amongst the objects rather than centralized,
so some communication between objects is necessary. We discuss our Java(TM) implementation of the travel planner and some
sample results of the system. The travel plans output are sometimes not good approximations of the optimal solution, because
a bounded, breadth-first search strategy is used. The system also loses on performance because of additional overhead incurred
by object collaboration. On the other hand, our architecture offers potential performance enhancements achievable through
concurrency as well as good design principles such as design for change, separation of concerns, and code reuse. We also demonstrate
how our architecture could be used to solve other optimization problems. We conclude that our architecture could be used as
a basis for a more efficient travel planner implementation

Active Server Pages 2 bible by Eric A Smith(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2000
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide